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<dt><span id="label-terminology"></span>Overloaded name</dt>
<dd>Overloaded name is a term used in this reference documentation to designate
a metafunction providing more than one public interface. In reality,
class template overloading is nonexistent and the referenced functionality
is implemented by other, unspecified, means.</dd>
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<dt>Concept-identical</dt>
<dd>A sequence <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">s1</span></tt> is said to be concept-identical to a sequence <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">s2</span></tt> if
<tt class="literal"><span class="pre">s1</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">s2</span></tt> model the exact same set of concepts.</dd>
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<dt>Bind expression</dt>
<dd><p class="first">A bind expression is simply that — an instantiation of one of the <a class="reference internal" href="./bind.html">bind</a>
class templates. For instance, these are all bind expressions:</p>
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<a href="./bind.html" class="identifier">bind</a>&lt; quote3&lt;<a href="./if.html" class="identifier">if_</a>&gt;, <a href="./placeholders.html" class="identifier">_1</a>,int,long &gt;
<a href="./bind.html" class="identifier">bind</a>&lt; <a href="./placeholders.html" class="identifier">_1</a>, <a href="./bind.html" class="identifier">bind</a>&lt; <a href="./plus.html" class="identifier">plus</a>&lt;&gt;, <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a>&lt;5&gt;, <a href="./placeholders.html" class="identifier">_2</a>&gt; &gt;
<a href="./bind.html" class="identifier">bind</a>&lt; <a href="./times.html" class="identifier">times</a>&lt;&gt;, <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a>&lt;2&gt;, <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a>&lt;2&gt; >
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<p>and these are not:</p>
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<a href="./if.html" class="identifier">if_</a>&lt; <a href="./placeholders.html" class="identifier">_1</a>, <a href="./bind.html" class="identifier">bind</a>&lt; <a href="./plus.html" class="identifier">plus</a>&lt;&gt;, <a href="./int.html" class="identifier">int_</a>&lt;5&gt;, <a href="./placeholders.html" class="identifier">_2</a>&gt;, <a href="./placeholders.html" class="identifier">_2</a> &gt;
<a href="./protect.html" class="identifier">protect</a>&lt; <a href="./bind.html" class="identifier">bind</a>&lt; quote3&lt;<a href="./if.html" class="identifier">if_</a>&gt;, <a href="./placeholders.html" class="identifier">_1</a>,int,long &gt; &gt;
<a href="./placeholders.html" class="identifier">_2</a>
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